Its summer!!! What are you doing to get moving??

Ok.. its NOT QUITE summer.. but the last few days have felt like it! Woot woot!  Ok.. so many of us LOVE summer because we can move our bods outside. What are you doing to move your body in the summer?  I am walking 2 miles 2ce per day.  Especially at this time of year, everything is in bloom and smells wonderful.  I pop in the MP3 player, strap Bowzer to his leash and we are gone and in our happy place.

Still running here.  Finished my second 5K this weekend and am gearing up for another one mid- June. Running 3 days a week, weight training 2 days, and Tae-bo 1 day....and on Mondays she rested. Good for you for getting outside and going!!!!  How're you feeling?

Hilarious!  You were able to use the bed smiley!  OMG girl you do all that?  Holy crap.. I don't have that energy level yet.  I'm feeling great. The "wound" (I don't like that word) from the infection is half way healed. I have had this opening for about a month now.. grrr. But I feel better. I saw the personal trainer and he emailed me weight training exercises.. and I had to buy a big ball and 3 lbs weights. So I will be slipping that into my routine. I would think that would help w/ some of the excess skin? No? or am I just dreaming here? Where is your other 5k race?

I love this warmer sunny weather. My passion is getting out in the flower gardens. Want a good workout? Dig out some flower beds, split and move perennials, and haul mulch! Actually, I also do cardio circuit weight training 3x/week and just signed up for cardio kickboxing at our local community center. Wow, I actually think I'm becoming...athletic!

Athletic huh? Whodda thunk it??  hee hee.  As for the gardening.. OMG YES... that is a work out!!  I did that this last weekend. Well, first I did my morning walk. Then grocery shopping. Then a lady up here was selling her perrineals that she devided for $2 ea (can't beat that!)  So then I got all ambitious and started in on my garden (which hadn't been towed or even raked) and after 4 hours I was spent!! I had to losen all of the dirt, dig holes for the perinneals...I even went ditch diving b/c there were some gorgeous lillies in the ditch in the country, dug those up. Hauled mulch... and I finally I just quit! I was sunburned hot and sweaty...Came in showered and looked at my progress. You know what..??? I was only 1/3 of the way done!!!! This is my first year gardening. i never knew it was so much work!

You'll get there..energy level I mean.  My next race is in Wisconsin Dells on the 14th of June.  Skips mom lives up there so we're going to make a weekend out of it.  I'm planning on doing a 10K in the fall..gotta find one...Appleton maybe?  LOL So it's healing up huh?  How's the eating going?

LOL if you do a 10k in Appleton let me know (holy cow.. 10k??? Will you be ready for that??)  If there is one here... you can totally stay here if you wanna save some ching. We have a guest room.  I'm healing up pretty good... I have a Dr. appt on Friday.. the 'wound' is still open.. but half the size it was about a month ago. As for the eating. Sometimes I think I can eat too much.. and other times I seem to get full quickly.  The weight is coming off... slowly.. but its coming off.  I'm down 40 lbs from my highest weight.. which I think i was at when I met you...only another 135 lbs to go!! LOL

I'm competing in a whole bunch of different races! Today, in the non-stop rain, I did the Green Bay Triathlon! It was awesome again, better than last year, and I beat my time from last year by 20 minutes!  Keep 'em coming!

I am having my surgery tomorrow...I've been obeste since second grade...while I've been active all my life I can't imagine running any langth race :( How do you do it? Were you a runner when you were younger? How does a person go from being out of breath just walking up a slight hill to running a race?